Academy Partner Manual 2016 / 2017
Contents What are Career Academies
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Who are Career Academy Students
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Charleston Region’s High Demand Career Clusters
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3 Key Ingredients for Success
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Project Based Learning
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Career Academy Intranet
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Career Headlight
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Suggestions for Activities
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Additional Ideas for Academy Partner Engagement
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AGC Scholarships
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Career Academy Calendar for 2016 / 2017
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Monthly Standing Dates for Advisory Board Meetings
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Suggested Advisory Board Structure
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Advisory Board Agenda Template
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Our Story
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Youth Apprenticeships
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What are
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Career Academies are innovative, career focused learning communities, within high schools, designed to thrill and excite students about their future. Academies provide continuous active support to ensure that every graduating senior is careerand/or college-ready through a vital system distinguished by:
• Active Advisory Boards of business professionals who provide a steady stream of highly relevant industry expertise that high school teachers use to augment their knowledge and curriculum • Academy Partners who support our high schools and acknowledge that every student has an integral part to play in our region’s economy
• A yearlong framework of regional “All Academy” meetings, allowing educators the opportunity to share across school and district lines and providing the most recent data about high demand local careers • Hands-on career opportunities for students that expose them to unfamiliar careers which offer desireable salary and benefits and a lifetime of advancement opportunities
• Continuous professional development opportunities for education professionals that encourage Project Based Learning and mimic the world of work – challenging high school students to use critical thinking to solve real world problems and to work in teams using research and active exploration
• Easily accessible and plentiful career connections like the AGC Scholarships and Youth Apprenticeships that provide seamless progress to post-secondary education and lead directly to high demand careers • Opportunities for students to see and interact with industry professionals on career path panels, job shadows, curriculum-based site visits and other work-based learning opportunities
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Who are Career Academy Students
Students planning on attending a university Career Academies provide vigorous and exciting curricula that helps them hone in on a major.
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Students who would have graduated from high school with no future plans Career Academies expose students to high demand, high wage industries and show them the value of direct pathways to technical certificates and associate degrees.
Students at risk of dropping out of high school Students self choose their path, creating Career Academy ownership. The exciting hands-on curriculum and the relevance of Career Academies reveal why the core classes, like math, English and science are necessary. Students have reported that classes like Mechatronics are the reason they continue to attend school.
Charleston Region’s High Demand Career Clusters STEM
Health Sciences
Computer Science
Engineering, Mechatronics, Automotive, Welding, Building Construction
Health Professions, Biomedical Research and Sports Medicine
Programming, Networking and Cyber Security
Business
Culinary
Marketing, Finance
Culinary, Hospitality and Tourism
Read the Talent Demand Study and learn more about the Charleston Region’s high-demand fields and job acceleration at charlestonchamber.net/talent. 4
3 Key Ingredients for Sucess
Sustaining Change through Business and Civic Leadership 150+ businesses have become Academy Partners, and meet regularly with schools at Advisory Board meetings Focus on passing expert industry knowledge to teachers, providing real world experiences for students
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Redesigning the Day Coordinate planning for teams of educators and collaboration by Academy Teams of teachers, composed of core subjects plus the career course, work together to provide relevance
Transforming Teaching and Learning Project Based Learning Rigorous and sequential curriculum with a career theme Integration of academic with career and technical skills
Project Based Learning
The Project Based Learning (PBL) process engages students and empowers ownership of learning. Students practice skills such as collaboration, communication, critical thinking and creativity, which are vital to success in careers and college. Teachers act as facilitator and coach, incorporating strategic teaching practices and essential project design elements.
The Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce now has staff trained to deliver Project Based Learning training to all educators and teachers in Career Academies. Beginning this fall, the Chamber will offer introductory training to all Career Academies with a more in-depth instruction each summer. Participants will learn how to design and manage rigorous, relevant, standards-focused projects all designed to teach students 21 Century skills – including those skills employers want most – team work, critical thinking, the ability to follow direction and problem solving.
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Career Academy Intranet The Career Academy Intranet, developed by the Charleston Metro Chamber, is a dynamic communications platform connecting Academy Partners across the region. Log in to learn what’s happening at other schools, view images from activities, post notes, view academy plans and converse with others in your field. The Intranet is your go-to source for information, contacts and events. It’s easy to use, mobile friendly and designed to accelerate collaboration across the region. cmccacademies.com 7
Robin Willis
Associate Vice President, Talent Pipeline Strategies rwillis@charlestonchamber.org 843.805.3031
Suzi Raiford
Career Preparedness Programs Director & Project Based Learning Instructor sraiford@charlestonchamber.org 843.805.3032
Career Headlight Use Career Headlight to illuminate a student’s path for career success Career Headlight, an online career awareness portal, matches a student’s interests to in-demand local careers. It provides information on training and skills needed, and where locally to obtain the needed skills. Students can learn about different careers and educators can help lead students through career exploration and preparation. Career Headlight can also be used by adults making career changes or exploration. charlestonregionalcareerheadlight.com 8
Suggestions for Activities Show off what you do best
The Nitty Gritty
Academy Partners can use their employees to share their company’s expertise with students. The ideal format is to bring pictures or company videos and a hands-on activity to class.
You can provide relevance to student curriculum by providing copies of documents, forms or videos your company uses on a daily basis.
- Send a subject matter expert to class
How to: Look at the pacing schedule, find a unit that corresponds to something integral to your business. Then schedule a “subject matter expert” class discussion with the Academy Coach. Time needed: 1 - 1.5 hours
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- Provide industry documents, forms and videos
Just think how many “bulb popping” moments your company can produce by bringing real world problems and solutions to their desks.
All about February
Get to the front of the class!
Provide a one day opportunity for student(s) to shadow an employee during February.
Does your company have experience in thermoforming or stress tests? You will make a deep impression by co-teaching a unit and sharing real world examples.
- National Shadow Month
How to: A date will be announced in your October Advisory Board meeting. Tell us how many students you can support, who they will report to and what their agenda for the day will be. Students will bring paperwork that needs to be signed and returned to school.
- Co-teach a unit
How to: Find a unit in the pacing guide that is second nature to your company and schedule time with the teacher and/or Academy Coach for a planning session. Time needed: 1 hour planning session + 1 - 2 class periods
Time needed: 1 day at your company from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. during February. Use time at the October Advisory Board meeting to plan the shadow visit.
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Suggestions for Activities Continued
Mock Interviews
- This is shockingly easy to provide, yet can provide priceless feedback and mentoring to a student. Everyone has to have a ‘first’ interview and everyone improves interviewing skills with practice. How to: Your Academy Coach can provide several days available during Spring semester and can tell you how many students will participate. If the dates fit your company’s schedule, plan to have several employees come to school to conduct 15 minute mock interviews with students. Provide them constructive feedback and encouragement. Time Needed: 1 business day
Host an Advisory Board meeting
- Host one monthly Advisory Board meeting in the morning and then allow teachers to shadow at your business for the day. Allowing teachers time for a career “deep dive” gives them firsthand knowledge to take back to their students about what it’s really like to work in your industry. How to: Choose an available monthly Advisory Board date and let your Academy Coach know you would like to host. Then choose one employee per teacher and ask them to allow teachers to spend the rest of the work day shadowing that employee. The goal is to learn about their job and the skills required, providing a bird’s-eye view of the different departments in your company. Time Needed: 1 full work day
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Take a Road Trip!
-P rovide a field trip to your company or to one of your projects This is an opportunity to immerse students and teachers in your world. Show them what “a day in your company� looks like. How to: Look at the pacing schedule, find a unit that corresponds to something you use in your business and schedule a field trip in October or February with the Academy Coach. Time needed: 4 - 5 hours Important: Max 2 field trips per Academy per year. They must be scheduled by the end of September in order to fit in the school calendar. Cost: $500 (per 30 students) is requested to pay for the bus and driver, substitute teacher and lunch. Payable to the school and given to the teacher or Academy Coach.
Business Book Club - Lead a Book Club
Would you like to see more soft skills when interviewing potential employees? Do you have employees with a heart for teaching? How to: Ask for the two-week interval available second semester. You will be partnered with a business, English or Leadership class teacher. Choose 2 - 3 employees to share the teaching. Students will be given the book about two weeks before Book Club begins. Time Needed: Employees lead Book Club during class. They share soft skills through their words, actions and demeanor. They discuss the business and life principles in the book, sharing personal examples. Cost: Choose a book from a provided list and purchase copies of the book for your class. These books will belong to the Business Book Club closet and will be shared with other Academies and future classes. Most of these books are $5 - $8 on Amazon. 12
Additional Ideas for Academy Partner Engagement
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Academic Incentives
Employee Involvement
• Have a company official send a personalized letter to honor roll students • Honor perfect attendance, citizenship and/or academic achievement with luncheons, field trips, certificates or other incentives • Sponsor a student for a national or state meeting, contest or conference
• Volunteer to be a subject tutor • Have lunch with a student once a week/month • Encourage company departments to adopt a classroom • Attend school programs and assemblies
Sharing Company Resources and Experience
Miscellaneous Activities
• Give tours of your business • Allow students to assist in company activities – festivals, expo booths, catering events • Place an exhibit of your business in a central location of the school • Allow use of company facilities for teacher in-service training, parent-community meetings, etc.
• Celebrate partnership anniversary • Consider using a student’s design in company promotional materials – business cards, greeting cards, etc.
Faculty and Staff Support • Sponsor professional development opportunities for teachers – grants, scholarships, summer workshops, seminars • Provide industry magazine or news subscriptions for faculty
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In May 2016, the Chamber awarded 75 Career Academy students with full two year scholarships to Trident Technical College. 15
AGC Scholarships
“ I am very thankful that I am getting an opportunity to be going to college with a scholarship. I’ll prove everyone who doubted me wrong, so I can proceed with my goal of becoming a civil engineer.” Benito Hernandez 2016 AGC Scholarship recipient R.B. Stall High School
Accelerate Greater Charleston investors fund annual scholarships provided to Career Academy students, paying 100 percent of tuition, books and fees toward an associate degree at Trident Technical College in a high demand field. Eligible students are high school seniors with a GPA in the 2 - 2.9 range; a population with little financial scholarship and grant opportunities available to them from other sources.
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Career Academy Calendar for 2016 / 2017
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August 9, 2016
All Academy Onboarding
Held in conjunction with State of the Region breakfast event
October – Advisory Board meetings on your standing date at your school
November – Advisory Board meetings on your standing date at your school
January – Advisory Board meetings on your standing date at your school
February – Advisory Board meetings on your standing date at your school
April – Advisory Board meetings on your standing date at your school
May – NO Advisory Boards meet during the month of May
September – Advisory Board meetings on your standing date at your school
December 8, 2016
All Academy Cluster Meeting at the Chamber
March – Advisory Board meetings on your standing date at your school
June 2016
All Academy Debrief Meeting at the Chamber
Monthly Standing Dates for Advisory Board Meetings All meetings at the school unless otherwise stated.
1st Wednesday
3rd Tuesday
2nd Tuesday
3rd Wednesday
• North Charleston Academies at 3:30 p.m.
• Burke Academies at 12 p.m. • Pilot Laing Stem at 11 a.m. • Regional Health Professions Advisory Board at 9 a.m.
• West Ashley STEM at 2:30 p.m. • Ft. Dorchester Culinary at 12:30 p.m.
• Summerville Computer Science at 8 a.m. • Academic Magnet Computer Science Academy at 3:30 p.m.
2nd Wednesday
3rd Thursday
2nd Thursday
4th Monday
• St. John’s Academies at 3 p.m. • DD2 Regional STEM Academies at 4:30 p.m.
• Stall Academies at 11 a.m. • Wando MSE Academy at 4 p.m.
3rd Monday
• DD2 Business Finance and Management at 2 p.m.
• Military Magnet Academies at 8 a.m. • Wando Business Academy at 4 p.m.
• Regional Computer Science at 3:30 p.m.
4th Wednesday
• Baptist Hill Business Information Management at 2 p.m.
All BCSD Academies meet at their school at 7:45 a.m. on August 31, October 5, January 11, March 1, and April 5. 18
Suggested Advisory Board Structure Your Advisory Board should have: Chair (from Industry) Co-Chair (from the school) Secretary
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• The Chair is responsible for the Agenda and works with the Co-Chair to prepare it. See Template on next page.
• The Co-Chair is responsible for scheduling any engagements planned by the Advisory Board and is responsible for tallying the Student Engagement data spreadsheet.
• The Secretary is responsible for taking notes at the Advisory Board meeting and posting notes to the Career Academy Intranet.
Advisory Board Agenda Template
1. Welcome 2. Ask if there are any additions or changes to last month’s meeting notes. Report whether or not they have been posted to the Intranet 3. Academy Partner Share* 4. Group discussion of curriculum specific intersections of the Academy Partner Share
5. Discuss any curriculum specific engagement desired for next 3 months 6. Discuss any soft skill engagements desired for next 3 months 7. Report any engagements that happened since last meeting 8. One-on-one time with teachers
* An Academy Partner Share is simply an 8-10 minute presentation where each Academy Partner shares the who / what / where / how details of their company to the Advisory Board. The Chair should schedule one to two Academy Partners each meeting until all have presented.
See page 18 for calendar of Advisory Board Meetings
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Youth Apprenticeships They additionally apprentice at an area company for approximately 10 hours per week. During the summer between the junior and senior year, the students work full-time as paid apprentices. The Chamber, through its Accelerate Greater Charleston fund, covers all cost for every Youth Apprentice to attend Trident Technical College. Youth Apprentices finish the program with zero college debt. At the end of the two-year program, students will have earned a high school diploma, certification in a specific field from Trident Technical College, credentialing from the U.S. Department of Labor and two years of paid work experience.
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In 2014, Apprenticship Carolina, Trident Technical College and the Charleston Metro Chamber pioneered a Youth Apprenticeship program collaboration with our regional education partners and businesses across the region. Five local companies hired 11 high school juniors to begin youth apprenticeships in manufacturing.
The Youth Apprenticeship programs continue to expand to multiple clusters including – Manufacturing, IT, Hospitality/Culinary, HVAC and Healthcare. Over 60 local companies have agreed to hire student apprentices. SunTrust Foundation donated $25,000 to support the 2015 & 2016 growth of Youth Apprenticeship program.
Junior and senior high school students take their normal high school programs as well as travel to Trident Technical College two to three days per week they are enrolled in dual credit classes in a specific area.
Want more information?
Mitchell Harp at Trident Technical College Mitchell.Harp@tridenttech.edu
Read the Talent Demand Study and learn more about the Charleston Region’s high-demand fields and job acceleration at charlestonchamber.net/talent. View the logos and names of Academy Partners to see the range of businesses participating and collaborating in career readiness at charlestonchamber.net/career-academy-partners.
4500 Leeds Avenue, Suite 100 N. Charleston, SC 29405 843.577.2510 mail@charlestonchamber.org
www.charlestonchamber.net